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THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE CIA’S WAR IN LAOS

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CIA activities in Laos had their beginnings in the 1950s. In 1959, US Special Operations Forces (military and CIA) began training some Laotian soldiers in unconventional warfare techniques as early as the fall of 1959 under the code name "Erawan". As Ahern (2009) rightly points out is that under this code name, General Vang Pao, who served the Lao royal family, recruited and trained his Hmong and Iu-Mien soldiers. The Hmong and Iu-Mien were targeted as allies after President John F. Kennedy, who refused to send more U.S. soldiers into battle in Southeast Asia, took office. Instead, he called on the CIA to use its tribal forces in Laos and "do everything possible to launch guerrilla operations in North Vietnam with its Asian recruits." General Vang Pao then recruited and trained his Hmong soldiers to ally with the CIA and fight against North Vietnam. The CIA itself claims that CIA air operations in Laos from 1955 to 1974 were the "largest paramilitary operations...
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HOW DID BANANAS CHANGED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE USA AND CENTRAL AMERICA ?

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If you head to your kitchen right now, there's a good chance you'll find a banana ready to be enjoyed. Over the years, this fruit has become highly popular in households around the world. Nonetheless, bananas are a fragile fruit, mainly because they spoil quickly. So, the only way for the trade of bananas to be profitable is to have huge plantations of the fruit. And the only way to achieve this amount of massive banana production is through the absolute control of the supply chain. It is for this reason that in 1900, the different banana companies from the United States decided to merge and create a single company called "The United Fruit Company". The purpose of this decision was to finally control the entire production chain. It was at this time that this mega-company set its sights on Central America with the aim of achieving the longed-for control of the aforementioned supply chain. However, this control meant also controlling the entire life of the workers in th...
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